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Synopsis
An artificial intelligence created to retrieve and analyze computer data goes rogue and proceeds to snoop in top secret databanks of the FBI and the National Security Agency. The novel describes its capture and imprisonment and the attempts by its creator, a woman scientist, to free it.
Is Exegesis appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 13 and up.
A philosophical technothriller about AI sentience and freedom with minimal violence or explicit content. The conflict is primarily intellectual and ethical rather than physical.
What to know going in
This book has mild violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include captivity and mental manipulation.
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Who'll love this
Teens fascinated by AI, computers, and ethical questions about technology will find this thought-provoking.